[Intro] May enters.... counting receipts with tulips Blue light stains the ceilings of houses [Verse 1] The first moon opens locked cupboards Bills lean beside dishwater and silence Search bars glow like little chapels False halos gather inside the feed Highways hum with price and pressure Families read old weather in each other [Pre-Chorus] This is how the month warns a people First through the body and stomach Then through the city and signal Then through the rooms where we sleep [Chorus] May speaks twice to the living We hear it in kitchens at midnight We hear it in streets after rain Hidden things come up breathing Drifting things go down rooting May speaks twice, and names us [Verse 2] Midmonth lowers the fever of noise Tea steeps beside laptops and seed trays Small gardens rise in rented sunlight Care work keeps the light on late Hands relearn ordinary forms of mercy The Earth asks better tending, not slogans [Bridge] Then language outruns sleep and patience Markets glitter over anxious kitchens Memory stands there with folded flowers A second bright witness climbs the horizon [Final Chorus] May speaks twice to the living We hear it through wires and windows We hear it over rooftops and rivers Keep the human signal unbroken Let the false shine fall away May speaks twice, and names us [Outro] Late spring leaves a public verdict We are named by what we keep
